Ibrahim Nasir International Airport

Ibrahim Nasir International Airport(IATA: MLE,ICAO: VRMM) (Maldivian:އިބްރާހިމް ނާސިރު ބައިނަލްއަޤުވާމީ ވައިގެ ބަނދަރު), also known as Malé International Airport, previously known as Hulhulé Airport, is the main international airport in the Maldives. It is located on Hulhulé Island in the North Malé Atoll, nearby the capital island Malé. Today, the airport is well connected with major airports around the world, mostly serving as the main gateway into the Maldives for tourists. It is managed financially and administratively by an independent corporate entity known as Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL).

History

Hulhulé Airport

The airport first started out as a small strip of land on the then inhabited island of Hulhulé. Hulhulé Airport was opened on 19 October 1960. The first runway built on Hulhulé Island was made of slotted steel sheets. The dimensions of this runway were 75 x 3000ft. The first aircraft which landed at the airport was a Royal New Zealand Air Force Transport plane on 19 October 1960 at 13:55hrs. The first commercial flight was an Air Ceylon flight (4R0ACJ) landed on this runway was at 15:50hrs on 10 April 1962. The first aircraft owned by the Maldives landed on the runway of the Hulhulé Airport on 9 October 1974.

History

Harold English opened English Field in 1929. That year Transcontinental & Western Air (the forerunner to TWA) started airline service through Amarillo. Later Braniff International, Continental Airlines and Trans-Texas Airways (later Texas International) operated flights to Lubbock and Dallas. Trans World Airlines operated flights to Wichita, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles (a nonstop 727 to LAX started in 1967). Braniff operated Lockheed Electras to Denver and Oklahoma City. Frontier Airlines operated Convair 580s to Denver and Memphis with intermediate stops in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The April 1957 OAG shows 23 weekday departures: 11 Braniff, 8 TWA, 2 Central and 2 Continental. The first scheduled jets into Amarillo were on TWA in 1964.

History

Construction started in 1965 on a new airport to handle travel to nearby naval bases. The new airport was dedicated on September 1, 1968, replacing Imeson Field; terrain precluded longer runways at Imeson. A new idea at JIA was separating departing and arriving passengers on different sides of the terminal (as can be seen in the photo on this page). This is no longer the case, and the airport (which has greatly expanded since the picture was taken) now uses the more typical layout with departing passengers on an upper level with an elevated roadway, and arriving passengers on the lower level.

The new airport was slow to expand, only serving two million passengers a year by 1982, but it served over five million annually by 1999 and an expansion plan was approved in 2000. The first phase, which included rebuilding the landside terminal, the central square and main concessions area, as well as consolidating the security checkpoints at one location, and more parking capacity was completed in 2004–2005. In 2007, 6,319,016 passengers were processed.

Malú

Malú ( María Lucía Sánchez Benítez) born in 1982 is a Spanishsinger. The Madrid-born singer is the niece of the famous flamenco composer and guitarist Paco de Lucía and is known for songs such as "Aprendiz", "Como Una Flor", "Toda", "Diles", "Si Estoy Loca" and "No Voy a Cambiar".

Demographics

Mal numbered 273,641 in the 2001 census and were 1.5 per cent of the total Scheduled Caste population of West Bengal. 39.6 per cent of the Mal were literate - 51.9 per cent males and 26.8 per cent females were literate.

Divisions

The Mal have four sub-divisions, the Raja Mal or Rajbansi Mal, the Chhatradhari Mal or Rajchhatradhari Mal, the Sapure Mal or Bede and the Paharia Mal or Dhanguria Mal. They are said to be Dravidian tribes found in the Rajmahal hills that was Hinduized over time. The community is now found mainly in Birbhum District. Raja Mals were rulers of Bengal-Jharkhand junction area. Chatradhari Mals were supposed to be ministers of Raja Mals. Sapure Mals are mainly snake charmers. Paharia Mals generally live in hilly areas, and have their own distinct language. Raja Mals do not practice widow marriage like other orthodox Hindus.

International Airport

Wide awakeI'm on a plane out of townFly awayFrom the weight of the worldOn the groundI'm internationalBut I don't know where to goHopefully where summer daysCan melt these winter bonesI'm internationalAnd you're orbiting my brainI'm reduced to writing nothingAll over napkins on the planeWide awakeI'm on a plane out of townTaking pictures of myselfIn the mirror on wallTrying hard not to make my spaceThe loneliest place of allEarly warning all across the skyClouds are rolling in on your lightAny change from here would beThe wisest change of allAny place from here up hereWould be the finest place to fallWide awakeI'm on a plane out of townI'm losing track of myselfOn all the time zone linesAnd if I daylight saveDo I jump ahead or fall behind?And I'm fine 'cause I knowAny plane I rideCan fly me homeAnd I'm fine 'cause I knowYou know, I knowIt's easy to seeClouds were built for dreamsBecause nothing up thereIs as easy as it seemsI step outAnd try to walk aroundAs I fall, I look upAnd wonder why it let me downI'm internationalThat's twice the speed of soundI just hope I take off from hereBefore I hit the groundIf I could get to heavenBy an airplane in the skyWe would always be in loveAnd we would always love to flyWide awakeI'm on a plane out of townTaking pictures of myselfIn the mirror on wallTrying hard not to make my spaceThe loneliest place of allAnd I'm fine 'cause I knowAny plane I rideCan fly me homeAnd I'm fine 'cause I knowYou know, I knowAnd I'm fine 'cause I knowAny plane I rideCan fly me homeAnd I'm fine 'cause I knowAny plane I rideCan fly me homeYou know, I know

Ibrahim Nasir International Airport

Ibrahim Nasir International Airport(IATA: MLE,ICAO: VRMM) (Maldivian:އިބްރާހިމް ނާސިރު ބައިނަލްއަޤުވާމީ ވައިގެ ބަނދަރު), also known as Malé International Airport, previously known as Hulhulé Airport, is the main international airport in the Maldives. It is located on Hulhulé Island in the North Malé Atoll, nearby the capital island Malé. Today, the airport is well connected with major airports around the world, mostly serving as the main gateway into the Maldives for tourists. It is managed financially and administratively by an independent corporate entity known as Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL).

History

Hulhulé Airport

The airport first started out as a small strip of land on the then inhabited island of Hulhulé. Hulhulé Airport was opened on 19 October 1960. The first runway built on Hulhulé Island was made of slotted steel sheets. The dimensions of this runway were 75 x 3000ft. The first aircraft which landed at the airport was a Royal New Zealand Air Force Transport plane on 19 October 1960 at 13:55hrs. The first commercial flight was an Air Ceylon flight (4R0ACJ) landed on this runway was at 15:50hrs on 10 April 1962. The first aircraft owned by the Maldives landed on the runway of the Hulhulé Airport on 9 October 1974.

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Five years ago, on the sort of working trip to Maldives that I can’t afford personally, I was among a small group of people who landed at what has since been renamed the Velana InternationalAirport... We landed at the Gan InternationalAirport, which serves several super-luxury resorts situated in the Addu atoll ... A bridge linking Malé to the airport is expected to be operational by mid-2018....

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Should you make your way to these barstools, you'll be rewarded with epic tales to share for the rest of your life. SUBSIX, MALDIVES ... You'll first need to get to the the luxury resort via a 40-minute seaplane ride from MaléInternationalAirport... READ MORE. ... * Dining on the seabed ... Visitors must first fly into the cliff-side LuklaAirport, described by the History Channel as "the most dangerous airport in the world for over 20 years"....

The China-Maldives Friendship Bridge, named by Maldivian PresidentAbdullaYameen, will span from eastern edge of Malé island to the western corner of the island of Hulhulé, where the internationalairport is located ... Though the country comprises a territory spanning nearly thousand islands, most of its citizens live on the islands of Malé, Hulhulé and Hulhumalé....

In the last five years, it has improved the country’s internationalairport, introduced an online visa application, established a national park system in long-protected reserves and neared completion of a national coastal road ...MaléInternationalAirport’s $450 million renovation includes a new runway aimed at increasing travelers....

The Maldives has leased an island close to Malé airport to ...FeydhooFinolhu, the nearest uninhabited island to capital Malé and the internationalairport, has been leased to a Chinese company for 50 years at a cost of about $4 million, the Maldivian tourism minister Moosa Zameer announced on Tuesday, without disclosing the name of the company....

The privately owned Soneva group unveiled 57 residential villas at its Soneva Jani resort on Noonu Atoll earlier this year, and the property's only four-bedroom IslandReserveVilla is still on the market for US$8.5 million (Dh31.2 million) ... Noonu Atoll is one of the largest clusters of islands that make up the Maldives, and the Soneva Jani property is 35 minutes by seaplane from MaléInternationalAirport ... pmunyal@thenational.ae ....

A new choice for GCC travellers looking for the height of laid-back luxury on an island idyll, will be available when St Regis Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, opens The St Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort from November 1 of this year ... For those seeking barefoot luxury, The St Regis Maldives offers a personal e-butler service prior to arrival and airport transfer for the 45 minutes from MaléInternationalAirport....

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